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Gene Reynolds (born Eugene Reynolds Blumenthal, April 4, 1923 – February 3, 2020) was an American actor, television writer, director, and producer. He was one of the producers of the TV series M*A*S*H.
Reynolds made his screen debut in the 1934 Our Gang short Washee Ironee, and for the next three decades made numerous appearances in films such as In Old Chicago (1937), Captains Courageous (1937), Love Finds Andy Hardy (1938), Boys Town (1938), They Shall Have Music (1939), Santa Fe Trail (1940), Adventure in Washington (1941), Eagle Squadron (1942) and The Country Girl (1954), and on television series like I Love Lucy, Armstrong Circle Theatre, Whirlybirds, and Hallmark Hall of Fame. He was contracted to MGM between 1937 and 1940. He was in the U.S. Army during World War II.
In 1957, Reynolds joined forces with Frank Gruber and James Brooks to create Tales of Wells Fargo for NBC. During the program’s five-year run he wrote and directed numerous episodes. Additional directing credits include multiple episodes of Leave It to Beaver, The Andy Griffith Show, The Farmer’s Daughter, My Three Sons, F Troop, Hogan’s Heroes, Room 222, and Many Happy Returns.
As a writer, director, and producer, Reynolds was involved with two highly successful CBS series in the 1970s and early 1980s. Between 1972 and 1983, he produced 120 episodes of M*A*S*H, which he co-created with Larry Gelbart, and for which he also wrote 11 episodes and directed 24. During that same period, he produced 22 episodes of Lou Grant, for which he wrote (or co-wrote) five episodes and directed 11.
Reynolds has been nominated for twenty-four Emmy Awards and won six times, including Outstanding Comedy Series for M*A*S*H and Outstanding Drama Series twice for Lou Grant, which also earned him a Humanitas Prize. He won the Directors Guild of America Award for Outstanding Direction of a Comedy Series twice for his work on M*A*S*H and the Directors Guild of America Award for Outstanding Direction of a Drama Series once for his work on Lou Grant.
Reynolds was elected President of the Directors Guild of America in 1993, a post he held for four years until 1997.
He died on February 3, 2020 at age 96.
Gene Reynolds Biography / Wiki
| Name | Gene Reynolds |
| Also Know | Eugene Reynolds Blumenthal |
| Gender | Male |
| Known For | Acting |
| Place of Birth | Cleveland, Ohio, USA |
| Date of Birth | 1923-04-04 |
| Age(as in 2022) | 96 |
| Deathday | 2020-02-03 |
Gene Reynolds Acting Movies
| Movie Name | Character | Release Date | Overview |
| The Penalty | Russell ‘Roosty’ Nelson | 1941-03-13 | In this crime drama, a ruthless gangster’s son is soon following in his father’s footsteps. When his daddy kills an FBI agent and a cabby, the boy see… |
| Adventure in Washington | Marty Driscoll | 1941-05-29 | A troubled youth is offered the opportunity to serve as a Senate page in Washington, DC…. |
| Bad Little Angel | Thomas ‘Tommy’ Wilks | 1939-10-27 | A bible-guided Victorian orphan befriends a bootblack in a strange town…. |
| Junior G-Men of the Air | Eddie Holden | 1942-06-30 | A group of street kids battle a terrorist gang led by a Japanese spy…. |
| Dead End Kids Go To War | Eddie Holden | 1942-10-02 | The Dead End Kids join the war effort in this feature-length version of the Universal serial Junior G-Men of the Air. The fiendish Black Dragon Societ… |
| Gallant Sons | Johnny Davis | 1940-11-15 | When a teenager’s father is accused of murder, the boy and his high-school classmates set out to find the real killer…. |
| Of Human Hearts | Jason Wilkins as a Child | 1938-02-11 | This is a story about family relationships, set in the time before and during the American Civil War. Ethan Wilkins is a poor and honest man who minis… |
| They Shall Have Music | Frankie | 1939-08-18 | The future is bleak for a troubled boy from a broken home in the slums. He runs away when his step father breaks his violin, ending up sleeping in the… |
| The Real M*A*S*H | Himself | 2010-09-01 | The Real MASH traces the original stories and people that inspired the fictional feature film and TV series about Mobile Army Surgical Hospitals in th… |
| The Country Girl | Larry | 1954-12-15 | An ex-theater actor is given one more chance to star in a musical yet his alcoholism may prevent it from happening…. |
| Boys Town | Tony Ponessa | 1938-09-08 | The devout but iron-willed Father Flanagan leads a community called Boys Town, a different sort of juvenile detention facility where, instead of being… |
| The Tuttles of Tahiti | Ru | 1942-05-01 | After a long absense from the island, Chester Tuttle returns to Tahiti to find that little has changed. His large family, particularly his scheming Un… |
| Jungle Patrol | Lt. Marion Minor | 1948-01-01 | Eight fighter pilots hold off constant Japanese attacks during the construction of an airstrip in New Guinea…. |
| The Flying Irishman | Young Douglas Corrigan | 1939-04-07 | This is the story of the historic 1938 flight of Douglas ‘Wrong Way’ Corrigan. Mr. Corrigan starred in this film, which chronicled his infamous flight… |
| The Spirit of Culver | Carruthers | 1939-03-10 | Tom Allen, an orphan accustomed to waiting in bread lines is awarded a scholarship to the Culver Military Academy. Talked into attending so that he c… |
| Down Three Dark Streets | Vince Angelino | 1954-09-02 | An FBI Agent takes on the three unrelated cases of a dead agent to track down his killer…. |
| Santa Fe Trail | Jason Brown | 1940-12-20 | As a penalty for fighting fellow classmates days before graduating from West Point, J.E.B. Stuart, George Armstrong Custer and four friends are assign… |
| The Big Cat | Wid Hawks, Gil’ Son | 1949-04-01 | A city boy arrives in his late mother’s birthplace to discover the locals have been pestered by a cougar…. |
| Thank You, Jeeves! | Bobby Smith | 1936-10-04 | Jeeves tries to keep his young master out of trouble…. |
| Andy Hardy’s Private Secretary | Jimmy McMahon | 1941-02-21 | All set to graduate from high school , Andy Hardy flunks his English exam — in spite of the fact that Aunt Milly is his teacher, and that the Judge h… |
| Victor Fleming: Master Craftsman | Himself | 2009-09-22 | A documentary on the life and career of Victor Fleming, director of such iconic movies as The Wizard of Oz and Gone with the Wind…. |
| Love Finds Andy Hardy | Jimmy MacMahon Jr. | 1938-07-22 | Andy Hardy becomes entangled with three different girls all at the same time…. |
| The Mortal Storm | Rudi | 1940-06-20 | The Roth family leads a quiet life in a small village in the German Alps during the early 1930s. When the Nazis come to power, the family is divided a… |
| The Crowd Roars | Tommy McCoy, as a boy | 1938-08-06 | A young boxer gets caught between a no-good father and a crime boss when he starts dating the boss’s daughter, although she doesn’t know what daddy do… |
| Washee Ironee | Football Player | 1934-11-13 | Rich boy Waldo gets his clothes dirty playing football with the gang just before he has to go to his mother’s society party. The gang tries to help hi… |
| The Californian | Ramon as a Child | 1937-07-18 | Native son returns from school in Spain to California in 1855 and finds corrupt politicians stealing land from old California families. He becomes a s… |
| Sins of Man | Karl Freyman as a Boy | 1936-06-19 | Austrian church bell ringer Freyman loves music and wants his two sons (both played by Ameche) to love it too. The first goes to America and the secon… |
| M*A*S*H: 30th Anniversary Reunion | Himself | 2002-05-17 | The M*A*S*H 30th Anniversary Reunion Special is a retrospective documentary on the CBS-TV series M*A*S*H that aired on the FOX TV network on May 17, 2… |
| Edison, the Man | Jimmy Price | 1940-05-10 | In flashback, fifty years after inventing the light bulb, an 82-year-old Edison tells his story starting at age twenty-two with his arrival in New Yor… |
| 99 River Street | Chuck | 1953-08-21 | A former boxer –now taxi driver– gets mixed up with jewel thieves…. |
| In Old Chicago | Dion O’Leary (as a boy) | 1938-04-15 | The O’Leary brothers — honest Jack and roguish Dion — become powerful figures, and eventually rivals, in Chicago on the eve of its Great Fire…. |
| The Blue Bird | Studious Boy | 1940-01-15 | An ungrateful girl and her little brother are transported in their dreams by a fairy to a wonderland, tasked with finding the mythical blue bird of ha… |
| Eagle Squadron | The kid | 1942-06-16 | An American joins the British Royal Air Force just before Pearl Harbor is attacked, and falls in love with a beautiful English girl…. |
| Captains Courageous | Boy in Print Shop (uncredited) | 1937-06-25 | Harvey, the arrogant and spoiled son of an indulgent absentee-father, falls overboard from a transatlantic steamship and is rescued by a fishing vesse… |
| Diane | Montecuculli | 1956-01-12 | Asked by Francis I to tutor his son, Diane de Poitiers becomes the future King Henry II’s mistress in 1500s France…. |
| Imaginary Witness: Hollywood and the Holocaust | Himself | 2004-01-01 | Daniel Anker’s 90-minute documentary takes on over 60 years of a very complex subject: Hollywood’s complicated, often contradictory relationship w… |
| Memories Of M*A*S*H | Self | 1991-11-25 | Hosted by one-time M*A*S*H guest star Shelley Long, “Memories of M*A*S*H†included brand-new interviews with the cast as well as producers, creato… |
| The Calling of Dan Matthews | Tommy’s Friend (uncredited) | 1935-12-10 | Dan Matthews (Richard Arlen), a young parson, is in love with Hope Strong (Charlotte Wynters), the daughter of James B. Strong (‘FRederick Burton’), a… |
| Madame X | Raymond Fleuriot, Age 12-14 | 1937-10-01 | An alcoholic woman was charged and tried for murder and a young defense attorney, unaware that she is his mother, takes the assignment to defend her i… |
Gene Reynolds Directing Movies
| Movie Name | Job | Release Date | Overview |
| Doing Life | Director | 1986-01-01 | Tony Danza stars in this prison drama about Jerome “Jerry” Rosenburg, a self-professed “jailhouse lawyer” who defends himself against the homicide cha… |
| The Whereabouts of Jenny | Director | 1991-01-14 | Jimmy O’Meara loves his daughter more than anything in the world. But when his ex-wife gets involved with a man who’s involved with criminals, his wor… |
| In Defense of Kids | Director | 1983-04-06 | When a female lawyer finds a girl hiding in the back of her car, it starts her thinking, and she decides to give up her job to open up a refuge for ne… |
| Director | The Andy Griffith Show is an American sitcom first televised on CBS between October 3, 1960 and April 1, 1968. Andy Griffith portrays the widowed sher… | ||
| Director | The trials of a former television station manager turned newspaper city editor, and his journalist staff…. | ||
| Director | The 4077th Mobile Army Surgical Hospital is stuck in the middle of the Korean war. With little help from the circumstances they find themselves in, th… | ||
| Director | A widower and aeronautical engineer named Steven Douglas raises three sons with the help of his father-in-law, and later the boys’ great-uncle. An ado… | ||
| Director | Gidget is an American sitcom about a surfing, boy-crazy teenager called “Gidget” and her widowed father Russ Lawrence, a UCLA professor. Sally Field s… | ||
| Director | A family of friendly monsters that have misadventures all while never quite understanding why people react to them so strangely…. | ||
| Director | Monica, an angel, is tasked with bringing guidance and messages from God to various people who are at a crossroads in their lives…. | ||
| Director | Mannix is an American television detective series that ran from 1967 through 1975 on CBS. Created by Richard Levinson and William Link and developed b… | ||
| Director | Room 222 is an American comedy-drama television series produced by 20th Century Fox Television. The series aired on ABC for 112 episodes from Septembe… | ||
| Director | Hogan’s Heroes is an American television sitcom that ran for 168 episodes from September 17, 1965, to July 4, 1971, on the CBS network. The show was s… | ||
| Director | A much more lavish version of the popular Superman television series which had first aired forty years earlier, Lois & Clark focused more on the Man o… | ||
| Director | Christy is an American historical fiction drama series which aired on CBS from April 1994 to August 1995, for twenty episodes.
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| Director | Leave It to Beaver is an American television situation comedy about an inquisitive and often naïve boy named Theodore “The Beaver” Cleaver and his ad… | ||
| Director | Mister Roberts is an American sitcom that aired on NBC from September 17, 1965 to April 8, 1966. Based on the best selling novel, 1948 play, and the 1… | ||
| Director | A television anthology series hosted by Alfred Hitchcock featuring dramas, thrillers, and mysteries…. | ||
| Director | Many Happy Returns is an American situation comedy that ran on CBS for twenty-six episodes, from September 21, 1964 to April 12, 1965, under the spons… | ||
| Director | Second Chances is an American television series created and written by producers Bernard Lechowick and Lynn Marie Latham. The series premiered Decembe… | ||
| Director | Promised Land is an American drama series which aired on CBS from 1996 to 1999. It is a spin-off from another series, Touched by an Angel…. | ||
| Director | A stern schoolteacher clashes with an aristocratic 19th-century king…. | ||
| Director | The Duck Factory is a 1984 NBC television series produced by MTM Enterprises that is perhaps most notable for being Jim Carrey’s first lead role in a … | ||
| Director | Peter Gunn is an American private eye television series… | ||
| Director | The Farmer’s Daughter is an American situation comedy series that was produced by Screen Gems Television and aired on ABC from September 20, 1963 to A… | ||
| Director | Karen is an American sitcom starring Karen Valentine that aired on ABC from January to May 1975. A mid-season replacement, Karen was canceled due to l… | ||
| Director | The Donna Reed Show is an American situation comedy starring Donna Reed as the upper-middle-class housewife Donna Stone. Carl Betz co-stars as her ped… | ||
| Director | Occasional Wife is an American sitcom… | ||
| Director | The Second Hundred Years is an American sitcom starring Monte Markham which aired on the ABC television network for one season from September 6, 1967 … | ||
| Director | Derived from the 1947 movie with the same name, a house is haunted by a deceased sea captain who wreaks havoc with the new tenants who were not advise… | ||
| Director | Wendy and Me is an American sitcom that aired on ABC during the 1964–1965 television season, primarily sponsored by Consolidated Cigar’s “El Product… | ||
| Director | Father of the Bride is an American sitcom that aired on CBS during the 1961-62 season. Produced by MGM Television, the series was based on the 1950 fi… | ||
| Director | N.Y.P.D. is the title of a half-hour American television crime drama of the 1960s set in the context of the New York City Police Department. The progr… | ||
| Director | Studio 5-B was 1989 short-lived drama series about a Canadian TV news channel. Six episodes aired on ABC Network between January and May 1989…. | ||
| Director | Carter Nash was a chemist in a police department who discovered a liquid which could turn him into Captain Nice, an odd sort of superhero: very shy an… | ||
| Director | The professional and private lives of the predominantly female staff of the Women’s Medical Arts, a progressive clinic with a mandate to breathe new l… | ||
| Director | Love on a Rooftop was an American sitcom about a newlywed couple, Dave and Julie Willis, and their humorous struggles to survive in San Francisco on D… | ||
| Director | In the Heat of the Night is an American television series based on the motion picture and novel of the same name starring Carroll O’Connor as the whit… | ||
| Director | 77 Sunset Strip is an hour-length American television private detective series created by Roy Huggins and starring Efrem Zimbalist, Jr., Roger Smith, … | ||
| Director | F Troop is a satirical American television sitcom that originally aired for two seasons on ABC-TV. It debuted in the United States on September 14, 19… | ||
| Director | Life Goes On is a television series that aired on ABC from September 12, 1989, to May 23, 1993. The show centers on the Thatcher family living in subu… | ||
| Director | Hotel Malibu is an American television series that aired on CBS in 1994 that was created and written by producers Bernard Lechowick and Lynn Marie Lat… | ||
| Director | Margie is an American television situation comedy starring Cynthia Pepper that was broadcast on ABC from October 12, 1961 to April 12, 1962 in the 9:3… | ||
| Director | Monty is a short lived American sitcom that aired on the FOX network in 1994. The series starred Henry Winkler as Monty Richardson, a loud, obnoxious … | ||
| Director | Wanted: Dead or Alive is an American Western television series starring Steve McQueen as the bounty hunter Josh Randall. It aired on CBS for three sea… | ||
| Director | A Fine Romance is an American comedy-drama series that aired from January 18, 1989 to March 2, 1989. The series was filmed on location at various plac… | ||
| Director | The concept of the series was the showing of unaired and unsold television pilots that did not make the television lineup for CBS. The show was succes… | ||
Gene Reynolds Production Movies
| Movie Name | Job | Release Date | Overview |
| Memories Of M*A*S*H | Producer | 1991-11-25 | Hosted by one-time M*A*S*H guest star Shelley Long, “Memories of M*A*S*H†included brand-new interviews with the cast as well as producers, creato… |
| Executive Producer | The 4077th Mobile Army Surgical Hospital is stuck in the middle of the Korean war. With little help from the circumstances they find themselves in, th… | ||
| Producer | Room 222 is an American comedy-drama television series produced by 20th Century Fox Television. The series aired on ABC for 112 episodes from Septembe… | ||
| Producer | Blossom is an American sitcom broadcast on NBC from January 3, 1991, to May 22, 1995. The series was created by Don Reo, and starred Mayim Bialik as B… | ||
| Producer | A stern schoolteacher clashes with an aristocratic 19th-century king…. | ||
| Producer | Roll Out is an American sitcom that aired Friday evenings on CBS during the 1973-1974 television season. Starring nightclub comedian Stu Gilliam and H… | ||
| Producer | Derived from the 1947 movie with the same name, a house is haunted by a deceased sea captain who wreaks havoc with the new tenants who were not advise… | ||
| Executive Producer | The trials of a former television station manager turned newspaper city editor, and his journalist staff…. | ||
| Producer | Karen is an American sitcom starring Karen Valentine that aired on ABC from January to May 1975. A mid-season replacement, Karen was canceled due to l… | ||
| Producer | Mr. President is a United States television series starring George C. Scott that premiered on May 3, 1987. It was part of the Fox Broadcasting Company… | ||
Writing
| Movie Name | Job | Release Date | Overview |
| Writer | The trials of a former television station manager turned newspaper city editor, and his journalist staff…. | ||
| Writer | Room 222 is an American comedy-drama television series produced by 20th Century Fox Television. The series aired on ABC for 112 episodes from Septembe… | ||
| Writer | The 4077th Mobile Army Surgical Hospital is stuck in the middle of the Korean war. With little help from the circumstances they find themselves in, th… | ||
| Story | The 4077th Mobile Army Surgical Hospital is stuck in the middle of the Korean war. With little help from the circumstances they find themselves in, th… | ||
Other Info
| Movie Name | Job | Release Date | Overview |
| Creator | The trials of a former television station manager turned newspaper city editor, and his journalist staff…. | ||
| Creator | Roll Out is an American sitcom that aired Friday evenings on CBS during the 1973-1974 television season. Starring nightclub comedian Stu Gilliam and H… | ||
| Creator | Karen is an American sitcom starring Karen Valentine that aired on ABC from January to May 1975. A mid-season replacement, Karen was canceled due to l… | ||
| Creator | Jim Hardie helps Wells Fargo agents battle the bad guys…. | ||
| Creator | Mr. President is a United States television series starring George C. Scott that premiered on May 3, 1987. It was part of the Fox Broadcasting Company… | ||
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